TCG Goksu photographed in Liverpool on 25 April 2015. She was visiting the city after a NATO exercise and was moored behind the USS Vicksburg.

Previously she was the Oliver Hazard Perry Guided Missile Frigate USS Estocin (FFG 15) but was disposed through the Security Assistance Programme to the Turkish navy in April 2003.

She was ordered in February 1976 and built by the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Launched on 3 November 1979 she was commissioned into the fleet on 10 January 1981.

Overall she is 136m long with a 14m beam and 6.8m draught. Propulsion comprises General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller giving a top speed in excess of 29 knots. She also has retractable 260kW retractable Azimuth thrusters for manoeuvring and docking.

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My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.